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Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Season 4 Videos

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Season 4 follows Kimmy Schmidt (Ellie Kemper) as she continues to adjust to the 21st century and learn more about who she really is. Joining Kimmy on her journey are her best friend and roommate, Titus Andromedon (Tituss Burgess); her former-employer-turned-friend Jacqueline White (Jane Krakowski); and landlord Lillian Kaushtupper (Carol Kane).

What all this adds up to in the first half of the fourth season, released on Netflix Wednesday, is a show perfectly tuned for a cultural moment in which darkness (not to mention toxic masculinity) feels inescapable.

Ellie Kemper's bold gameness has powered the show for so long that it's almost easy to take it for granted; even while she's failed to truly grow all that much over the years, her enthusiasm and dedication to the role remains engaging.

Season 4 doesn't feel like the strongest that the show has been, but it does feel like the relative end of this story without dragging things out further or being disingenuous to the characters and their progress.

It's become a thought experiment, an abstraction, a careful exaggeration, slowly but surely whittling away the emotional messiness of the earlier seasons until the very thing that made it such a creative risk.